Disagree that bringing back MacLean is some kind of call back to old school hockey and appealing to old people.
Strombo was too spastic in the role. They tried to go for the TNT NBA type panel but had no one entertaining or with the charisma of a Charles Barkley or even a Shaq. If you don't have those guys - it is just grating. So unless you can find that guy (Don Cherry is the closest they have but he's old and stuck in his role - you can hate him, but he has charisma and people re-act to him), might as well just go bland so people don't change the channel.
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